{"id":1295,"date":"2007-11-17T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/17\/it-wasnt-just-children-who-were-in-need"},"modified":"2007-11-17T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T10:59:00","slug":"it-wasnt-just-children-who-were-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"It Wasn&#8217;t Just Children Who Were &#8220;In Need&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Shambolic is the only word that could describe this years Children In Need. And why the hell should I be made to feel guilty for not donating when Terry Wogan can command 1500 pounds an hour for his hosting &#8220;skills&#8221;. The man is crap! He behaved as if drunk. If wasn&#8217;t taking his cues properly. He was making weird &#8220;off the cuff&#8221; remarks. He was amateurish at best.<\/p>\n<p \/>  Most of the acts were throw away. The cast of Eastenders doing Beatles songs. The Spice Grans MIMING their new single &#8220;Headlines&#8221; which sounds more like they are singing &#8220;hairlines&#8221; to me.<\/p>\n<p \/>  Not 5 minutes into the show, the new Joseph lost sound on his mic when performing &#8220;Any Dream Will Do&#8221;. The sound problems continued all night.<\/p>\n<p \/>  It WAS awful! I&#8217;ll never get those 7 hours back!<\/p>\n<p \/>  For those of you wondering what the hell I&#8217;m talking about. Children In Need is sort of like an old style telethon in which a load of &#8220;entertaining&#8221; bits of TV are put together to get people to watch and donate money. It&#8217;s put on by the BBC each November. For more info in to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pudsey\">www.bbc.co.uk\/pudsey<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3979208399727476335-2708589696825740230?l=lozzyr.blogspot.com\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shambolic is the only word that could describe this years Children In Need. And why the hell should I be made to feel guilty for not donating when Terry Wogan can command 1500 pounds an hour for his hosting &#8220;skills&#8221;. The man is crap! He behaved as if drunk. If wasn&#8217;t taking his cues properly. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=1295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Wasn&#8217;t Just Children Who Were &#8220;In Need&#8221;!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,91,110,136,148,311,327],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-celebrity","tag-culture","tag-england","tag-general-interest","tag-health","tag-television","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}